Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New Xamarin.Android 4.8 was released with F# Support!
• Full suite of F# project options in Xamarin Studio on Mac OS X: create apps, unit tests, target OpenGL.
• TsunamiIDE announced Tsunami Chrome Extension.
• PowerShellTypeProvider with SharePoint 2013 support is available on Nuget.
• Minsk F# User Group was registered.
• Foq 1.1 was released.
• The {m}brace team has been selected to present at the PLOS 2013 workshop!
• Increased demand for F#-devs in the UK during 2013.
• Vote if you are interested in F# covariance/contravariance.
• Taha Hachana presented “Navigation using the Location Object“.
• Taha Hachana presented “HTML5 charting with TsunamiIDE“.
• New open opportunities were added to Type Providers lists.

Videos/Presentations

• “Dependent Type Providers” by David Raymond Christiansen.

Blogs

• Anton Kropp wrote “Coding Dojo: a gentle introduction to Machine Learning with F# review“.
• Onorio Catenacci shared “F# Tip Of The Week (Week of August 19, 2013)“.
• Steve Gilham posted “F# asynchrony and Task -> Task<unit> conversion“.
• Matthew Adams blogged “Dealing with Repetitive Tasks – Recursion in F#“.
• Lou Franco wrote about “The 0-Liner“.
• Thomas Jaskula posted “From OOP to FP : About dependency injection and higher-order functions“.
• Samuel Neff wrote “Machine Learning with F# and C# side-by-side“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #33

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New {m}brace version was released with cloud disposables and brand new documentation.
• Fantomas extension v0.7.0 is available in VS gallery with new features and various improvements.
• F# User Groups Map was updated.
• MonoDevelop 4.0.12 was released.
• Over 180 people were registered to an F# meetup in Boston!

Videos/Presentations

• “Generative Art Hands On with F#” by Phillip Trelford. (code samples)
• “Introduction To Stateful Monads In F#” by James Litsios.

Blogs

• Jack Fox posted “Gaining FsCheck Fluency through Transparency“.
• Onorio Catenacci wrote “F# Tip Of The Week (Week of August 12, 2013)“.
• Richard Minerich blogged “All Machine Learning Platforms are Terrible (but some less so)“.
• Neil Danson shared “F# and Monogame Part 4 – Content Pipeline“.
• Thomas Jaskula posted “My 2 weeks trip from OOP to FP with F#“.
• Anton Kropp wrote “F# class getter fun“.
• Faisal Waris published “FAKE Script for ClickOnce Packaging of F# Apps“.
• Gary Evans blogged “RunKeeper Visualizations“.
• Phillip Trelford posted “Generative Art“.
• Phillip Trelford posted “The Kids Are Alright“.
• Dawid Kowalski blogged “With F# up to speed – month later“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #32

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• VegaHub was presented (A SignalR Hub Utility for data scientists to push Vega charts from F# Interactive).
• New beta of TsunamiIDE is available now. Tons of improvements, major performance fixes etc.
• New TypeProviders are inside Tsunami (NuGetTypeProvider, S3TypeProvider, FacebookTypeProvider, DocumentTypeProvider) and much more.
• Taha Hachana presented “Google Visualization Line Chart“.
• PowerShell Type Provider was updated: VS IntelliSense works for 64bit PowerShell snap-ins, like SharePoint 2013 one.
• F# Outlining – for those who still do not use it.
• Canopy 0.7.9 was released.

Videos/Presentations

• “VegaHub for F# and FSI” by Nicolas Rolland.
• John Carmack praises static types: “Everything that is syntactically legal will eventually wind up in your code base”.

Blogs

• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Type Providers: News from the battlefields“.
• Phil Trelford wrote “Developer Conferences“.
• “Syntax Matters: Writing abstract computations in F#” by Tomas Petricek and Don Syme.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #31

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• PowerShell Type Provider was announced.
• F# intellisense support for LINQPad on 4th place on the user voice forum.
• SkyDrive web text editor can now support F# code files.
• Good discussion of F# Vector<T> on StackOverflow.
• New candidate for a Type Provider.

Videos/Presentations

• “Data, Visibility, and Abstraction” by Stuart Sierra
• “Embedding Tsunami into Event Store” by TsunamiIDE
• “Functional linear data structures in f#” by Jack Fox

Blogs

• Scott Wlaschin published “Learn X in Y minutes.Where X=F#“
• Phil Trelford wrote “GameCraft NYC“.
• Onorio Catenacci shared “Getting The Band Back Together“.
• Neil Danson blogged:
  • “F# and Monogame Part 1 – MacOS“
  • “F# and Monogame Part 2 – Android“
  • “F# and Monogame Part 3 – iOS“
• Matthew Adams posted “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eleven – More With Functions and Logic in F#: Minimizing Boolean Expressions“.
• David Tchepak wrote about “String calculator with Parsec“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “PowerShell Type Provider“.
• Natallie Baikevich ‏posted “Excel-DNA: Three Stories“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #30

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Python Type Provider was announced.
• New GestIT web site with live demos was released.
• Support for infix operators on Matlab Variable Handles was added to the Matlab F# Type Provider.
• Vote if you would like to have F# IntelliSense support in LINQPad.
• Tsunami Cloud was announced (screenshot).
• Taha Hachana shared “DOM Implementation Details“.
• FiM++ support was added to Tsunami.

Videos/Presentations

• “F# Mobile Apps” by James Freiwirth (slides, code)
• “What is new in Mono?” by Miguel de Icaza.
• “Zero Install .Net in Excel with Tsunami and FCell in C#, VB and F#” by Tsunami IDE.

Blogs

• Richard Minerich posted “The Promise of F# Language Type Providers“.
• Eric Lippert wrote “What is the type of the null literal?“.
• Matthew Adams shared “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Ten – Getting Started With Operators in F#“.
• Dave Fancher posted “.NET Users of Fort Wayne – August 21“.
• Matt Ball blogged “Continuous Deployment With FAKE and Octopus Deploy“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Turing drawings“.
• Ross McKinlay blogged “Choose Your Own Adventure Type Provider“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #29

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Fashion Collection was announced (Please share your photos in F# t-shirts).
• FSharp.Data 1.1.9 was released.
• Richard Minerich did some reworking of the F# Matlab Type Provider.
• Tomas Petricek showed pattern matching with member constraints.
• Anders Hejlsberg wants to copy F# features in C#!
• Fantomas plugin for Tsunami was presented.
• Taha Hachana shared HTML5 WebSocket snippet.

Videos/Presentations

• “{M}brace the cloud with Tsunami” by Tsunami IDE.
• “Functional-style control flow in F#” by Lincoln Atkinson (with imperative and functional snippets).
• “Building Better Web Apps with FSharp” by Daniel Mohl.

Blogs

• Sean Corfield wrote “Lambda Jam 2013“.
• Cameron Taggart shared “Source Linking“.
• Paulmichael Blasucci posted:
  • Progressive F# Tutorials NYC 2013.
  • To the A-maze-ment of All: Generating Mazes in F#.
• Sergey Tihon blogged:
  • Rattle for F# devs.
  • let runFAKE = Download >> Unzip >> IKVMCompile >> Sign >> NuGet.
  • FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser justification or StackOverflow questions understanding.
• Matthew Adams shared “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Nine – Introducing Functions in F#“.
• Gary Evans blogged:
  • Binomial Tree Option Pricing in F#.
  • Sipping from the twitter stream.
• Don Syme wrote about:
  • Combining F# and Excel using Excel DNA.
  • F# Deep Dives – Early Access Program.
  • F# Deep Dives – Chapter 4 – Financial Programming.
  • F# Type Provider for MATLAB – Feedback requested, contributions welcome.
• Rikard Ottosson posted “The Actor Model“.
• Phillip Trelford wrote about “F# in the Enterprise“.
• Richard Minerich blogged “Come join me at the SkillsMatter F# Tutorials NYC 2013“.
• Scott Hanselman wrote “Cross-Platform Portable Class Libraries with .NET are Happening“.
• Mashape posted “List of 40+ Machine Learning APIs“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #28

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# users who program with Visual Studio will be glad to see this new debugger feature in VS2013.
• F# side-by-side rendered Markdown comments in Tsunami are coming soon.
• There is one more app in Windows Store with F# inside.
• Taha Hachana showed HTML5 native video playback.
• FSM.NET 2.0.0 (a simple “stateless” finite-state machine library for .NET, written in F#) was released and is available on NuGet.
• New discussion “FSharp.Formatting for static sites“.

Videos/Presentations

• “Polyglot Architecture: A Rational Approach to Software Design” by Richard Minerich.
• “DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS with F# and EventStore” by Leo Gorodinski.

Blogs

• Matt Ball posted “Service Stack, With F# on Linux“.
• Ramasubramanian wrote “The N Queens problem!“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team blogged “Viewing function return values in the Visual Studio 2013 debugger“.
• Sergey Tihon shared some posts:
  • “Stanford Parser is available on NuGet“
  • “Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER) is available on NuGet“
  • “Stanford Log-linear Part-Of-Speech Tagger is available on NuGet“
• Phil Trelford posted “Machine Learning from Disaster“.
• Richard Minerich blogged “In Retrospect: QCon NYC 2013 (and a conversation with Rich Hickey on languages)“.
• Michael Newton shared “FsCheck – Breaking Your Code in New and Exciting Ways“.
• Mathias Brandewinder posted ““Summer of F#” Tour“.
• John Reynolds wrote “Adding binding options to Morozov’s WPF MVC framework“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #27

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• “Indentation for val” was proposed on VS uservoice.
• The first version of F# code formatter addin for Visual Studio 2012 was released.
• Do not lose your points – up-vote your favorite ideas.
• The Extreme Optimization Numerical Libraries for .NET now support F# 3.1 row and column slicing and modules with functional programming operators (mapi, iteri…) for vectors and matrices.
• Visual F# Resources that should be accessible by fsharp.net. 😉
• WebSharper Snippets was released.
• Edge-fs npm module was published.
• Dave Thomas was managed to get Xamarin Studio to debug itself interactively.
• F#+Sage = New opportunity? (Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system)
• FSharp.Compiler.Editor was added to NuGet, this allows access to the F# compilers AST for tooling.
• ReSharper users who also use F# might want to weigh in on this issue.
• Tsunami uses 100% F# for the WPF UI. No C# / XAML layer cake.
• Interactively optimizing trading algos with F#, Tsunami, Matlab and TradersToolbox.
• Script your way to world domination with Minions! A drone fleet management plug-in for the budding dictator F#.
• Why does the F# compiler fail with this infix operator?

Videos/Presentations

• F# in Your Organization with Kit Eason.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Field notes: Coursera Machine Learning class“.
• Buddy James posted “Machine learning resources for .NET developers“.
• Don Syme published “FSCL – Compiling F# to OpenCL for High-Performance over Multi-core and Many-core devices“.
• Dawid Kowalski wrote “4 week challenge – up to speed with F#“.
• Jack Fox shared “Lambda Jam F# Bibliography“.
• What’s new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?
• JaredPar blogged “Immutable isn’t just for parallel code“.
• Ivan Towlson posted “Func-ier and Func-ier“.
• Richard Minerich wrote “On Type Safety, Representable States and Erlang“.
• InfoQ posted “F# Moves Forward in 3.1 Preview Release”.
• Ross McKinlay blogged “Last-Fi“.
• Matthew Adams shared “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eight – Working With Logic“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Random Forest classification in F#: first cut“.
• Yan Cui wrote “Project Euler – Problem 60 Solution“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Microsoft MVP – Visual F#“.
• Gene Belitski posted “Going Artistic with FSharp.Charting“.
• Gary Evans wrote “Picking with DirectX 11 and Bullet Physics“.
• Natallie Baikevich blogged “Days and Ghost Refinements“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “New Angular.js Option in the F#/C# MVC 4 SPA Project Template“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #26

Welcome to F# Weekly,

It was an adorable week! There are lots of great things happened:

News

• Pre-release of F# 3.1 was announced (reddit)
• From now, Visual F# tooling can be updated more frequently, and independently of Visual Studio.
• NuGet 2.6 was released with New official Microsoft package feed.
• A technical overview of {m}brace was published.
• VS 2012 Update 3 fixes the HintPath bug which happened when you updated a NuGet package in an F# project.
• FSM.NET has been released on NuGet.
• Tsunami Reader – A RSS Reader F# Type Provider. Soon to have more features than Google Reader.
• FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser was announced (available on NuGet).
• FSharpx 1.8.29 was released. Excel type provider works without Excel, very fast Reflection and lots of smaller fixes.
• All F# Stanford NLP samples were updated up to the latest Stanford libraries and latest IKVM.
• There is some plans for a F# SignalR TypeProvider to be used in FunScript. If you want to help please contact @mark_dj.
• Want Alt+Enter to work in ReSharper AND send to F# Interactive? Check out this plugin.
• New idea was added to Visual Studio User Voice: “add support for Windows Store apps written in F# … show that F# can be superior to C# even when it comes to more common tasks like GUI dev“.
• Tsunami IDE was moved from Google Groups to Discourse.

Videos/Presentations

• “Keynote – Scala with Style” by Martin Odersky (Dmitry Morozov  said “Worthwhile to watch for any #fsharp dev. Start at #19 if you’re solid in FP.Key takeaway – I’m so happy to be F#dev.“)
• “1GAM June: FShoot” by Gareth Williams
• “Last-Fi -An F# powered Raspberry Pi internet radio” by Ross McKinlay.
• “.NET Rocks – Functional Programming Panel: Type systems and static typing – saving your ass or getting in your face” from NDCOslo. (audio only)
• “Succeeding with Functional-first Programming in Industry” by Don Syme.
• “Making Magic: Combining Data, Information, Services and Programming, at Internet-Scale” by Don Syme.
• “Clarity of Intent” by Paulmichael Blasucci.

Blogs

• Sergey Tihon wrote some posts
  • Selective crawling in SharePoint 2010 (with F# & Selenium).
  • Confluence/Jira communication from F# and C#.
  • FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser available on NuGet.
  • Declarative authorization in REST services in SharePoint with F# and ServiceStack.
• Scott Wlaschin published “Railway oriented programming: Carbonated edition“.
• Dave Thomas blogged “Can I Have Some F# With That?” (Quick post on adding F# support to ScriptCs)
• John Liao posted “Riak CAP Tuning and F#“.
• Immo Landwerth posted “Please welcome ImmutableArray<T>“.
• Yan Cui wrote about “Customizing document styles with FSharp.Markdown.Pdf“.
• Gareth Williams wrote “1GAM June: FShoot“.
• Heather Cynede shared “Building the source without project files“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team blogged “We are proud to announce a pre-release of F# 3.1 and Visual F# tools in VS 2013“.
• Richard Broida posted “WATK in F#, Part 6: Debugging Applications in Windows Azure“.
• Paul Grenyer shared “NorDev1 Review: Liz Keogh: Lean vs. Agile: Fight! & Phil Trelford: F# eye for the C# guy“.
• Loic Denuziere wrote “XML computation expressions: Playing around with extending the F# compiler“.
• Neil Danson blogged “Types, types, types(A (short) journey through type definitions)“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #25